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  • EU Taxonomy to be reference in innovating bond market - ICMA

    17 March 2020

    The International Capital Market Association (ICMA) believes the EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities will become a key reference as the green bond market moves beyond its current use of proceeds focus.

  • Green Bond Principles sets up three new workstreams

    03 March 2020

    The Green and Social Bond Principles has established a workstream to explore whether to review its guidelines for external reviewers.

  • Sustainability-linked bonds 'could outgrow green bond market', says ICMA's Pfaff

    14 February 2020

    The nascent sustainability-linked bond market could outgrow the green bond market, according to the International Capital Market Association, which administers the Green Bond Principles.

  • Moody's upsizes its 2019 green bond prediction to more than $200bn

    08 August 2019

    Moody's predicts green bond issuance to exceed $200 billion this year, following a record-breaking second quarter and first half of the year. It had earlier predicted the market to hit $200 billion in 2019.

  • Green bond market should get a boost from proposed EU standards, say insiders

    18 June 2019

    Revised proposals for an EU Green Bond Standard (EU GBS) from the EU Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG) have been generally welcomed by market insiders.

  • GBPs map 'green' project eligibility against other taxonomies

    13 June 2019

    A mapping of how the influential Green Bond Principles' (GBPs) judgment of "greenness" corresponds with that of other standards and taxonomies has been published.

  • France green bond supports 7% reduction in residential sector emissions

    30 November 2018

    France's ground-breaking sovereign green bond contributed to a projected 7% reduction in the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of the country's residential homes sector, the first report on the bond's impact has revealed.

  • GBPs appoint first Chinese member of executive committee

    15 June 2017

    Bank of China has become the first Chinese player to join the executive committee of the Green Bond Principles (GBPs).

  • WWF calls for more disclosure, standards in the green bond market

    13 June 2016

    Leading players in the green bond market should support the development of clear standards to assess the true environmental contribution made by these instruments, and improve disclosure about these benefits, says a report from WWF.